President Biden’s co-chair acknowledged that she is “afraid” of how the escalating border issue would affect her reelection campaign.

Representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat from Texas, contends that the president is not responsible for the regular influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States from Mexico each month, but rather Congress. Biden’s least popular policy throughout his administration has been immigration, but Escobar told Politico that Biden is only being criticized because he is in the White House.

She said, “It is our job,” referring to Congress. “We have failed over and over again.”

“I do worry that Democrats will get blamed simply because the president is in the White House,” she stated. “I hope not, but I’m afraid of that,” the woman said in response to a question about whether she thinks Biden will suffer political repercussions for the situation.

Escobar made his remarks shortly after Texas Governor Greg Abbott approved a bill enabling local law enforcement to apprehend undocumented immigrants.

Abbott stated during the signing ceremony that Senate Bill 4 was intended to “stop the tidal wave of illegal entry into Texas.”

Once in detention, immigrants faced the option of being charged with misdemeanor illegal entry or consenting to a Texas judge’s order to leave the country. If they don’t cooperate, migrants may be arrested again and charged with more serious felonies.

In fiscal year 2023, there was an unparalleled surge in undocumented immigration, with over 2.4 million interactions with migrants at the border.

With almost 240,000 encounters across the border in October of the following month, September set a record for encounters at the southern border.

Congress is still at a standstill over possible border legislation. Republicans have made money for Ukraine reliant on first resolving the domestic situation since Biden and other Democrats have refused to engage in negotiations on the matter.

Thousands of migrants have arrived in Democratic-led cities including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia by buses from border communities in Texas.

On Monday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott came under fire from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who said the Republican governor was causing “chaos” across the nation with his “bussing” program, which has sent thousands of asylum seekers from border towns to Democratic-led cities.

Johnson remarked that migrants were being brought to Chicago in poor conditions, which was placing a strain on city programs and resources. This was stated at an unrelated news conference.

“They come to the city of Chicago, where we have homelessness, we have mental health clinics that have been shut down and closed,” he stated.

“The issue is not just how we respond in the city of Chicago,” Johnson stated. “The issue is that families are being put on buses without shoes by a governor and other elected officials in the state of Texas, leaving them cold, wet, exhausted, hungry, scared, and traumatized.

After that, the families travel to Chicago, where there is homelessness and closed mental health clinics. There are folks here who are looking for work. With the turmoil he’s producing for the citizens of this country, Texas’s governor ought to look in the mirror.”

Texas has moved thousands of people to “sanctuary cities” to relieve pressure on border communities and border officials while drawing attention to the illegal immigration crisis to the Biden administration.

Abbott has drawn criticism from New York City officials as well because of the strain that asylum seekers have placed on the city’s resources.

“This dynamic extends beyond Chicago. He is launching an assault on our nation!” Johnson stated about Abbott.

Fox News Digital was informed by Abbott’s press secretary Andrew Mahaleris that Johnson was “flat-out lying.”

“If he truly cared about these migrants, he would stop spreading falsehoods and complaining about a few thousand migrants being bused into his sanctuary city,” he stated. “Instead, Mayor Johnson should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border — something the President continues failing to do.”

Mahaleris observed that when migrants board a bus where the destination has been agreed upon, they voluntarily sign a voluntary consent release that is available in multiple languages. According to him, every bus has food and water on board and stops periodically to change drivers and refuel.

Because they have already been inspected and freed by border authorities, migrants are also permitted to buy additional products or disembark at any stop, according to Mahaleris.

The words made by the mayor came after several migrants were admitted to hospitals due to sickness, and a 5-year-old migrant boy passed away over the weekend. Additionally, Johnson has attacked the bus firms that transport the asylum seekers into his city.

His deputy chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, told the Chicago Tribune that, in an attempt to avoid fines from the city, the companies are no longer informing one another about the locations at which they are dropping off migrants.

To hold bus companies responsible for transporting illegal immigrants to a city already overwhelmed by population during the winter, the city has launched more than fifty lawsuits.

“Migrants are no longer being dropped off at the city’s landing zone on buses from the southern border, causing people to wander with no direction looking for shelter, according to an aide to Mayor Johnson,” said the Chicago Tribune.”Chicago Mayor Calls Out Texas Gov. Abbott for Alleged Assault on Nation Over Migrant Transportation to Dem Cities”

House Republicans are targeting the White House because it was long-standing practice to delete President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, from other records, such as its visitation logs, and leave him off the Marine One passenger list.

The president’s distance from Hunter’s local problems may not have helped, according to a Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich’s story on Tuesday. “We were all just watching the First Family’s return from Delaware on Marine One, and my colleague Peter Doocy noticed someone hop off the chopper who was not on the passenger list the White House gave us: Hunter Biden.”

“So, Hunter is here at the White House after defying a Congressional subpoena while being indicted and facing a maximum of 17 years behind bars on financial crimes plus another 25 on the gun charges that he is facing,” Heinrich explained.

The absence of Hunter Biden from the White House’s records led the House Republican Conference’s social media account to wonder what else might be missing.

The House GOP account said on X, “Hunter Biden is currently at the White House after being spotted exiting Marine One,” according to Fox News. “The passenger manifest for the White House did not include him. How many more manifests and visitation logs does Hunter Biden not appear on?

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if the administration will go forward with announcing Hunter Biden’s attendance on Marine One during a press briefing on Thursday.

“We haven’t done that before,” Jean-Pierre answered. This group is the family. As every other president has done, the president’s family is allowed to travel with him or her, so this is not anything we have done or would be doing going forward.

The Biden White House has continually referred to itself as the “most transparent administration in American history.” Nevertheless, a prior analysis of Fox News Digital’s visitor records revealed that none of Hunter Biden’s visits or prolonged stays at the White House were recorded from the start of the Biden administration until February 2023. Hunter’s name continues to be absent from the White House visitor logs, it seems.

Hunter Biden visited the White House more than a dozen times until February 2023, according to a review that pieced together his travels during his father’s presidency using information from other sources.

Fox News Digital discovered that most of the White House visits from 2022, such as the yearly egg roll, Medal of Freedom ceremony, France State Dinner on the South Lawn, Christmas tree lighting, and his daughter’s wedding, were recorded. But his visits to the White House were not noted in the visitor logs, even during what seem to have been prolonged stays.

This policy, which seems less transparent than the Obama administration, declares that “the White House will not release access records related to purely personal guests of the First and Second Families (i.e., visits that do not involve any official or political business).”

Many of these events at the White House are ceremonial and customary, but in the past, Fox News Digital revealed how, during the Obama administration, Hunter Biden attempted to use them for his financial benefit.

Nine tax-related charges are currently pending against Hunter in California. Hunter disobeyed a congressional subpoena last week and was spotted shopping with his father in Delaware on Monday. If found guilty, he might spend up to 17 years behind bars.

The White House hasn’t yet responded right away.